The Spider Strain
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When a supercriminal's assistant wants to leave the organization and marry the boss's daughter, the Spider sets him two tasks. Can he accomplish the first? A classic pulp mystery from the creator of Zorror, "The Spider Strain" originally appeared in Detective Story Magazine in 1918!
Johnston McCulley
Johnston McCulley (1883–1958) was a pulp writer best known for creating the character Zorro. A former reporter, McCulley published stories of adventure and romance in magazines like Argosy. He introduced Zorro in the 1919 story “The Curse of Capistrano,” later republished as The Mark of Zorro, and continued to feature him in his writing into the 1950s.
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